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Shubhamastu

The document provides details on Linux technical skill areas including understanding and using essential tools, operating running systems, configuring local storage and file systems, deploying, configuring and maintaining systems, managing users and groups, managing security, and system configuration and management. It also provides details on configuring common network services like HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, FTP, NFS, Samba, SMTP, SSH, and NTP.

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Shubhamastu

The document provides details on Linux technical skill areas including understanding and using essential tools, operating running systems, configuring local storage and file systems, deploying, configuring and maintaining systems, managing users and groups, managing security, and system configuration and management. It also provides details on configuring common network services like HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, FTP, NFS, Samba, SMTP, SSH, and NTP.

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Subhamastu srirastu Avignamastu

Sri Guruvayurappan Sahayam


Sri Rama Jayam
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Organizational and Operational Skills
-------------------------Unix Incident and Change Management procedure
| Resolving Incidents as per the Service Level Agreement
| Creating Change Requests, Scheduling them for Execution and Implementation
| Vendor Communication for Hardware Requirement
Linux Technical skill areas
Understand and Use Essential Tools
Access a shell prompt and issue commands with the correct syntax.
Use input-output redirection (>, >>, |, 2>, etc.).
Use grep and regular expressions to analyze text.
Access Linux systems remotely for administration
Login and switch users in multi-user runlevels.
Archive, compress, unpack, and uncompress files using tar, star, gzip, and bzip2
.
Create hard and soft links.
Locate, read, and use system documentation including man, info, and files in /us
r/share/doc.
Operate Running Systems

Boot, reboot, and shut down a system normally.


Boot systems into different runlevels manually.
Use single-user mode to gain access to a system.
Identify CPU and memory-intensive processes, adjust process priority with renice
and kill processes.
Locate and interpret system log files.
Working with Various types of Server Consoles .e.g iLOM
Start, stop, and check the status of network services.

Configure Local Storage


List, create, delete, and set partition types for primary, extended, and logical
partitions.
Create and remove physical volumes, assign physical volumes to volumes groups, a
nd create and delete logical volumes.
Create and configure LUKS-encrypted partitions and logical volumes to prompt for
password and be available at system boot.
Configure systems to mount file systems at boot by using Universally Unique ID (
UUID) or labels.
Add new partitions, logical volumes, and swap to a system non-destructively.
Create and Configure File Systems

Create; mount; unmount; and use ext2, ext3, and ext4 file systems.
Mount, unmount, and use LUKS-encrypted file systems.
Mount and unmount CIFS and NFS network file systems.
Configure systems to mount ext4, LUKS-encrypted, and network file systems automa

tically.
Extend existing unencrypted ext4 formatted logical volumes.
Create and configure set-GID directories for collaboration.
Create and manage access control lists (ACLs).
Diagnose and correct file permission problems.
Deploy, Configure, and Maintain Systems
Configure network and hostname resolution statically or dynamically.
Schedule tasks using cron.
Configure systems to boot into a specific runlevel automatically.
Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux automatically using kickstart.
Configure a physical machine to host virtual guests.
Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems as virtual guests.
Configure systems to launch virtual machines at boot.
Configure network services to start automatically at boot.
Configure a system to run a default configuration HTTP server.
Configure a system to run a default configuration FTP server.
Install and update software packages from the Red Hat Network, a remote reposito
ry, or from the local file system.
Update the kernel package appropriately to ensure a bootable system.
Modify the system bootloader.
Manage Users and Groups
Create, delete, and modify local user accounts.
Change passwords and adjust password aging for local user accounts.
Create, delete, and modify local groups and group memberships.
Configure a system to use an existing LDAP directory service for user and group
information.
Manage Security

Configure firewall settings using system-config-firewall or iptables.


Set enforcing and permissive modes for SELinux.
List and identify SELinux and file process context.
Restore default file contexts.
Use Boolean settings to modify system SELinux settings.
Diagnose and address routine SELinux policy violations.

System Configuration and Management


Route IP traffic and create static routes.
Use iptables to implement packet filtering and configure network address transla
tion (NAT).
Use /proc/sys and sysctl to modify and set kernel run-time parameters.
Configure a system to authenticate using Kerberos.
Build a simple RPM that packages a single file.
Configure a system as an iSCSI initiator that persistently mounts an iSCSI targe
t.
Produce and deliver reports on system utilization (processor, memory, disk, and
network).
Use shell scripting to automate system maintenance tasks.
Configure a system to log to a remote system.
Configure a system to accept logging from a remote system. HTTP/HTTPS
Install the packages needed to provide the service.
Configure SELinux to support the service.
Configure the service to start when the system is booted.
Configure the service for basic operation.
Configure host-based and user-based security for the service.

Configure a virtual host.


Configure private directories.
Deploy a basic CGI application.
Configure group-managed content.

DNS

Install the packages needed to provide the service.


Configure SELinux to support the service.
Configure the service to start when the system is booted.
Configure the service for basic operation.
Configure host-based and user-based security for the service.
Configure a caching-only name server.
Configure a caching-only name server to forward DNS queries (forwarding server).

FTP

Install the packages needed to provide the service.


Configure SELinux to support the service.
Configure the service to start when the system is booted.
Configure the service for basic operation.
Configure host-based and user-based security for the service.
Configure anonymous-only downloads.

NFS

Install the packages needed to provide the service.


Configure SELinux to support the service.
Configure the service to start when the system is booted.
Configure the service for basic operation.
Configure host-based and user-based security for the service.
Provide network shares to specific clients.
Provide shares suitable for group collaboration.

Samba

Install the packages needed to provide the service.


Configure SELinux to support the service.
Configure the service to start when the system is booted.
Configure the service for basic operation.
Configure host-based and user-based security for the service.
Provide network shares to specific clients.
Provide shares suitable for group collaboration.

SMTP

Install the packages needed to provide the service.


Configure SELinux to support the service.
Configure the service to start when the system is booted.
Configure the service for basic operation.
Configure host-based and user-based security for the service.
Configure a mail transfer agent (MTA) to accept inbound email from other systems
Configure an MTA to forward (relay) email through a smart host.

SSH
Install the packages needed to provide the service.
Configure SELinux to support the service.
Configure the service to start when the system is booted.

Configure
Configure
Configure
Configure

the service for basic operation.


host-based and user-based security for the service.
key-based authentication.
additional options described in documentation.

NTP

Install the packages needed to provide the service.


Configure SELinux to support the service.
Configure the service to start when the system is booted.
Configure the service for basic operation.
Configure host-based and user-based security for the service.
Synchronize time using other NTP peers.

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